vsftpd 2.3.4 Backdoor

This was a recent discovery by Chris Evans and you can read more details in his blog post available here. Furthermore, you can find information about this incident at The H Open as well as LWN.net websites.

So, the backdoor affects specifically 2.3.4 version of the popular FTP daemon and can be found in str.c file which contains code for handling the string manipulation routines.